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ask for it

/ask, ahsk/US // æsk, ɑsk //UK // (ɑːsk) //

求之不得,索要,求人

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Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to put a question to; inquire of: I asked him but he didn't answer.
    • : to request information about: to ask the way.
    • : to try to get by using words; request: to ask advice; to ask a favor.
    • : to solicit from; request of: Could I ask you a favor? Ask her for advice.
    • : to demand; expect: What price are they asking? A little silence is all I ask.
    • : to set a price of: to ask $20 for the hat.
    • : to call for; need; require: This experiment asks patience.
    • : to invite: to ask guests to dinner.
    • : Archaic. to publish.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make inquiry; inquire: to ask about a person.
    • : to request or petition: to ask for leniency; to ask for food.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a question or inquiry.
    • : a request, especially a demanding one: Is it too big an ask for you to give me a loan?

Phrases

  • ask a stupid question and you'll get a stupid answer
  • ask for
  • ask for the moon
  • ask out
  • don't ask
  • for the asking

Synonyms & Antonyms

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Synonyms
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Antonyms

Examples

  • As a best practice, position your ask as something that will benefit their readers.

  • This ask comes as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is reportedly “softening” to the idea of including stimulus checks in the next package, Politico reported Tuesday.

  • It seems that isn't an unreasonable ask, but she should own her preference rather than try to pretend that she is just trying to protect the sister-in-law.

  • “Little did I know how big of an ask it was but, if you want to be at the center of God’s will, you have to be submissive and you have to put yourself out there and I’m so glad I did,” she said.

  • It’s a tough ask — especially when your team goes from regulation-sized to spanning the globe.

  • If ISIS “came into a base and killed hundreds of troops, then people would ask a lot more questions.”

  • And I need to ask why their truth makes me so defensive, as if my truth is the only truth.

  • One is forced to ask, what on earth was Andrew doing hanging out with scantily clad teenagers?

  • “You ask me my motivation,” Marvin says, moving back into his tough guy persona again.

  • I ask Atefeh and Monir if they see dancing as a form of income in the future, a potential career.

  • "There's just one thing I'd like to ask, if you don't mind," said Cynthia, coming suddenly out of a brown study.

  • That it is a reasonable and proper thing to ask our statesmen and politicians: what is going to happen to the world?

  • I ask for half a dozen projectors or so in every school, and for a well-stocked storehouse of films.

  • For it is better that thy children should ask of thee, than that thou look toward the hands of thy children.

  • Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.